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Education
D.C. student commutes to charters vary; some go more than five miles
By Michael Alison Chandler May 10 at 1:25 PM
Commuting distances vary widely at charter schools in the District, according to a new school-by school analysis of enrollment patterns. The analysis, from the D.C. Public Charter School Board, shows that some schools attract students from across the city and that others serve mostly families from the surrounding neighborhoods.
Fewer than 10 percent of the city’s charter school students commute less than a mile to school, compared with more than 60 percent of students enrolled in traditional public schools in the District, the report found. Nearly 50 percent of charter students commute between one and two miles to school, and more than a third travel as much as two or three miles to and from school.
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